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Recent Examples of verbally
After verbally commanding Jordan to drop the gun, officers were able to take him into custody.
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Hunter Geisel, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
Sharing details verbally takes time and can lead to miscommunication.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Dec. 2025
That revulsion, though, is usually expressed tonally rather than verbally—in the loveless couplings, or in the cold white privacy of yet another bathroom stall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The observers blasted their whistles and verbally confronted the agents, asking them to show warrants or badge numbers.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
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Hunter Geisel, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
Sharing details verbally takes time and can lead to miscommunication.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Dec. 2025
That revulsion, though, is usually expressed tonally rather than verbally—in the loveless couplings, or in the cold white privacy of yet another bathroom stall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The observers blasted their whistles and verbally confronted the agents, asking them to show warrants or badge numbers.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbally
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Authoring this noisy, jazzy track all by his lonesome, Weir vocally zig-zagged his way across a cluttered arrangement flush with oddball time changes.—
A.D. Amorosi,
Variety,
11 Jan. 2026
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Kelly was also vocally opposed to the federal immigration operations in Chicago dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, which also involved two shootings by ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents, one of which was fatal.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In the background, the person filming reacted audibly to what had happened.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
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But even in Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Middle Eastern makams press audibly against Byzantine chant and Western diatonic systems.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
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Adams also left a statement as a sort of coda, written New Year’s Day and read aloud Tuesday by his ex-wife, that noted his body had failed him but his mind had not.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Rickey was the life of the party — and was looking forward to attending prom at the time he was murdered, his mother, Latasha Ferguson, said in a letter read aloud by a victim advocate.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Verbally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbally. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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